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Space VJ Meeting III.
Great news: Space VJ Meeting III. finally is happening again and will take place in Olsztyn, Poland, the weekend from 2nd till 5th November 2017! Five years after the first two editions VJ Diablos (Jaroslaw Balabanski) from Olsztyn and VJ Sinarisama (Toshikazu JaySon Toyama) from Japan are organizing a four-day expo with workshops and performances, […]
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SHINY TOYS #5
SHINY TOYS 2014 is going to happen in nov/dec for the fifth time in Mülheim and Moers, Germany. Shiny Toys Festival #5 consists of three parts: exhibition, performance and lab – all dedicated to a range of audio visual experiments. Shiny Toys 2014 starts on nov. 21st with the exhibition DER BLICK MIT ZWEI AUGEN […]
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BYOB Osnabrück
BYOB goes EMAF 2014. The first BOYB (Bring Your Own Beamer) of Lower Saxony will take place during EMAF (European Media Arts Festival) in Osnabrück, Germany. Artists, filmmakers and moving image enthusiasts are invited to screen their works at Lagerhalle e.V. in the Old Town of Osnabrück. If the weather is good, we might do […]
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new animated short movie by VJ Suave “Trip”
This year VJ Suave from Brazil had been on a „trip“ through Europe, to Switzerland, Portugal, Berlin and Mülheim an der Ruhr. During Shiny Toys Festival in Mülheim we lived together for a week and I was able to witness their work first hand. Over two years ago I had come across their lively, energetic […]
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SHINY TOYS * space 2013
SHINY TOYS SPACE is an international meeting-point for artists who share a passion for experimenting with communication mediums, who create synchronized image and sound and, thus, address auditory and visual senses. Visualizers, sound artists and all others interested are warmly invited to participate. gathering + workshops + hacker space 10.-13. Oktober 2013 no rules. but […]
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Tina Tonagel – Live at SHINY TOYS
Tina Tonagel studied at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. Her artistic focus lies on kinetic machines, sound installations and different kinds of projections. At the moment she mainly works with overhead projectors which she rebuilds into new realtime-motion-projection-machines by using mechanical constructions. Tina Tonagel participated in several exhibitions and festivals and received different scholarships and awards, […]
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The Erasers – Road to Knowhere – Live at SHINY TOYS
The artist collective The Eraser from Athens combine live cinema, performance actions, internet and installed stage sceneries. The Eraser are thus building a new audio-visual language. “Road to Knowhere” is an outdoor (public space) performance that was premiered in Geneva, Switzerland 2011 at Mapping Festival and describes a road trip through Europe (past – present […]
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Christian Faubel – Live at SHINY TOYS
Christian Faubel is a researcher and artist interested in autonomous behavior and how it may emerge out of the interaction of very simple systems. In his artistic work he experiments with minimal low-level electronics and simple robots that generate patterns. Since 2001 participation in several media-art festivals with robotic-installations and workshops. http://derstrudel.org VJ Yochee [ˈviːdʒeɪ […]
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Ralf Schreiber – Live at SHINY TOYS
Ralf Schreiber works with electronics, with solar panels, with motors and tiny loudspeakers. His playful and experimental works produce small sounds, smallest movements and deal with weak energy transformation processes such as transforming light into movement or sound. He finished MA studies at the Münster College of Art and postgraduate studies at the Academy of […]
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Ray Vibration – Live at SHINY TOYS
Ray Vibration is an overhead projector project by Christian Faubel, Ralf Schreiber and Tina Tonagel. The projection surface emerges into a triptych, which reveals, increases and abstracts the smallest (inter)actions of different electronic and kinetic tools. Colourful solar robots and different small electronic musical instruments create images and generate sounds. These are then filtered on […]
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Werner Nekes – exhibition at SHINY TOYS
German filmmaker and media artist Werner Nekes has produced about 100 movies since 1965 and is represented at various international exhibitions and retrospectives. Over the course of the last 25 years, he put together one of the most important private collections of pre- and early history of audiovisual media and media arts. the collection is […]
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Berzik/Langfeld/Steins – Live at SHINY TOYS
radio aporee::: maps+live The field recording platform radio aporee:::maps was initiated in 2007 by media artist Udo Noll. By using the image material of google maps, aporee:::maps allows to virtually connect audio recordings with places and the spot where they were created. The trio Frank Berzik (saxophone / clarinet), Patricia Langfeld (Vocals) and Hubert Steins […]
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Klaus Urbons – exhibition at SHINY TOYS
Klaus Urbons is a graphics and arts freelancer since 1980. His fields of work include digital media, copy art and electrography, historical research, technical and art copy work. His professional evolution started developing after secondary school, when he began with an apprenticeship as a typesetter and later got a degree in visual communication with a […]
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VJ Suave – Live at SHINY TOYS
Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga combine live painting, iPad animations, audiovisual live performance and digital graffiti, thus creating incomparable installations in an open space. The captivating performances of VJ Suave are drawn and painted by hand, digitally animated and projected on facades of their hometown São Paolo. After exploring Mülheim an der Ruhr by bike […]
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LichtGestalten – Live at SHINY TOYS
LichtGestalten (LightShapes) play around with self-drawn pictures and thus create site-specific images and video mappings. In the past years LichtGestalten were involved in several art festivals, poetry slams and had VJ appearances. Their faithful companions are their self-made tagtool vintage-controller and since recently the tagtool-iPad-App through which they put their small image-worlds into movement. lichtgestaltentagtool.wordpress.com […]
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Trans/Human – Live at SHINY TOYS
Comprising parts of Trans/Human and A New Aktionist Kitchen / 2GYRLZ, RECEPTION converge to create AKTION; employing DIY electronics and transcutaneous technology, as invocations of ghost frequencies and streams of absent members merge and mutate, the body remains present as it ceaselessly channels the energies of Love & Rage. transhuman.bandcamp.com theaudaciousartexperiment.com VJ Yochee [ˈviːdʒeɪ ˈʤɔkɪ] […]